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Advanced Spectroscopy Unlocks Secrets of Disordered Materials
June 18th 2025Researchers in Brazil have developed new optical techniques—SLIM, IC-scan, and RICO-scan—to probe the complex nonlinear properties of scattering and disordered materials, expanding potential applications in photonics, biomedicine, and thermometry.